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geotextiles

[¦jē·ō¦tek‚stīlz]
(civil engineering)
Woven or nonwoven fabrics used with foundations, soils, rock, earth, or other geotechnical material as an integral part of a manufactured project, structure, or system. Also known as civil engineering fabrics; erosion control cloth; filter fabrics; support membranes.
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Geotextiles

Cloth or clothlike materials intended for use in the soil, usually for filtering or containing soil water. Some types are used to prevent or control erosion.
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The report 'Geotextile Tubes Market by Type (Woven, Nonwoven), End-use (Marine & Hydraulic, Environmental Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Construction), and Region (Europe, North America, APAC, MEA, South America) - Global Forecast to 2024', is projected to grow from USD 1.8 billion in 2019 to USD 3.3 billion by 2024 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 10.0% during the forecast period.
Both black plastic and geotextiles are widely used by farmers, gardeners and landscapers.
Its product range includes PP/PET staple fiber, nonwoven geotextiles (80-2000 gsm), and geocomposites.
Two laboratory model tests, vacuum preloading and geotextile tube tests, were carried out.
Usually, geotextile, which is one type of geosynthetic, is used to reinforce road embankments built on soft soil foundations.
"The reason we set up a plant [via our joint venture] in Saudi Arabia is that the GCC market for geo-synthetics is growing at a rate of 20% per year, and the Kingdom represents 70% of the geotextile market in the GCC," he says.
Alyaf's GCLs, marketed as ALFCLAY, have high quality bentonite between two geotextile layers to form a sandwich-type composite of around 10 mm thickness.
Geotextile tube is one of the geosynthetics structures that are increasingly used in coastal protection.
In order to test the Geotextile impact on gully controla research project has been conducted in 2009 and one region in Southeast of Omidiyeh in Khuzestan province was selected.
In order to prevent the aggregates of different structural layers from becoming intermixed during road or street construction or in the phase of operation the geotextile inter-layers have been world-widely used in the recent 15 years.
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